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man's Magazine, Nov. 1833, contains a wood-cut and account of this old religious house. See also 

 Bowles's History of Lacock Abbey. J. B.] 



The church of Broad Chalke was dedicated to All-Hallowes, as appeares by the ancient parish 

 booke. The tradition is that it was built by a lawyer, whose picture is in severall of the glasse- 

 windowes yet remaining, kneeling, in a purple gowne or robe, and at the bottome of the windowes 

 this subscription : Orate pro felici statu Magistri Micardi Lenot. This church hath no pillar, and the 

 breadth is thirty and two feete and two inches. Hereabout are no trees now growing that would be 

 long enough to make the crosse beames that doe reach from side to side. By the fashion of the 

 windowes I doe guesse that it was built in the reigne of King Henry the Sixth. [The church of 

 Broad Chalk is described in Hoare's Modern Wiltshire, Hundred of Chalk, p. 148.] 



The market-crosses of Salisbury, Malmesbury, and Trowbridge, are very noble : standing on six 

 pillars, and well vaulted over with freestone well carved. On every one of these crosses above sayd 

 the crest of Hungerford, the sickles, doth flourish like parietaria or wall-flower, as likewise on most 

 publique buildings in these parts, which witnesse not onely their opulency but munificency. I doe 

 think there is such another crosse at Cricklade, with the coate and crests of Hungerford. Qusere 

 de hoc. [There is not any cross remaining in Trowbridge ; and that at Cricklade, in the high 

 street, is merely a single shaft, placed on a base of steps. The one at Salisbury is a plain unadorned 

 building ; but that of Malmesbury is a fine ornamented edifice. It is described and illustrated in 

 my " Dictionary of the Architecture and Archax>logy of the Middle Ages." J. B.] 



The Lord Stourton's house at Stourton is very large and very old, but is little considerable as to 

 the architecture. The pavement of the chapell there is of bricks, annealed or painted yellow, with 

 their coat and rebus ; sc. a tower and a tunne. These enamelled bricks have not been in use these 

 last hundred yeares. The old paving of Our Lady Church at Salisbury was of such ; and the 

 choire of Gloucester church is paved with admirable bricks of this fashion. A little chapell at 

 Merton, in the Earle of Shaftesbury's house, is paved with such tiles, whereon are annealed or 

 enamelled the coate and quarterings of Horsey. It is pity that this fashion is not revived ; they 

 are handsome and far more wholesome than marble paving in our could climate, and much cheaper. 

 They have been disused ever since King Edward the Sixth's tune. [Aubrey would have rejoiced 

 to witness the success which has attended the revived use of ornamental paving tiles within the last 

 few years. Messrs. Copeland and Garrett, and Mr. Minton, of Stoke-upon-Trent, as well as the 

 Messrs. Chamberlain of Worcester, are engaged in making large numbers of these tiles, which are 

 now extensively employed by church architects. Those individuals have produced tiles equal in 

 excellence and beauty to the ancient specimens. J. B.] 



Heretofore all gentlemen's houses had fish ponds, and their houses had motes drawn about them, 

 both for strength and for convenience of fish on fasting days. 



The architecture of an old English gentleman's house, especially in Wiltshire and thereabout, was 

 a good high strong wall, a gate house, a great hall and parlour, and within the little green court 

 where you come in, stood on one side the barne : they then thought not the noise of the threshold 

 ill musique. This is yet to be seen at severall old houses and seates, e. g. Bradfield, Alderton, 

 Stanton St. Quintin, Yatton-Keynell, &c. 



Fallersdowne, vulgo Falston, was built by a Baynton, about perhaps Henry the Fifth. Here was 

 a noble old-fashioned house, with a mote about it and drawbridge, and strong high walles embatteled. 



